We wish the best of luck to all those candidates who will be
sitting for Cambridge English Legal English Certificate in a few
days! They will certainly make progress in their international
careers as lawyers. The course has been long, but it was worth
making the effort.

Hi there, those of you who should be considering sitting for the
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL ENGLISH CERTIFICATE in the City of Buenos
Aires, bear in mind that the deadline is 13th September. Do get
into BA Open Centre's website and check further information!
http://www.buenosairesopencentre.com/ Here's a photo of some of
our students in action, having the BLACK'S LAW DICTIONARY at
hand!

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defender to charge for his services, and Isocrates as the first
not to keep confidentiality about his client’s matters. By 1683
there were treatises about “The Perfect Lawyer’s Ideal”. Saint
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This is a brief course for legal professionals and
translators who want to gain further insights into the language
of lawyers prevailing in the US. They will then
be introduced to the functioning of the American legal system,
they will analyze actual cases and go through the vocabulary of
three important areas of American Law.

This course is addressed to
those legal professionals who need to acquire or improve their
writing skills in a field-specific environment. When lawyers
draft contracts, they do not do it from scratch, as they usually
deal with templates and documents that have already been drafted.
Still, they have a labor-intensive task that requires an
understanding of legal documents,...

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English is an essential tool for any lawyer working with international matters. It is the lingua franca of the legal profession, of business and of international affairs.
Legal employers need a tool to assess whether their legal staff and prospective employees have a sufficient level of English to be able to communicate efficiently with clients, colleagues and professionals in other countries, and to handle information written in English. At the same time, law students and newly-qualified lawyers need to be able to prove that they have these skills.
The Cambridge ILEC - International Legal English Certificate - meets these needs.

To help finance professionals demonstrate they have the financial English skills they need, University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations and ACCA have worked together to develop the International Certificate in Financial English (Cambridge ICFE).

PLEAD is a Legal English training course designed to provide lawyers and law students with essential English skills for legal practice in the 21st century. Developed by TransLegal in cooperation with the Boston University School of Law, the Boston University Center for English Language and Orientation Programs, and Cambridge University Press, PLEAD uses a "blended learning" approach that has an online element and a coursebook element.

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